Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement
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Not going to hold my breath waiting for a second season, but it would be nice.
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@myskaros said in Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement:
@killerrin If you are that against reading stuff already covered, then you'd want to read volume 4, then skip to 6. The anime covered 1-3 straight, then skipped 4 to go to volume 5.
Its not so much that I'm against reading stuff that's already been covered. And more that I find it mentally easier to make the jump to the different medium if I start from new content then after I catch up, or if I find myself completely lost I'll tend to jump back to the earlier ones I initially skipped over.
In that case I guess I'll start from volume 4 and go onwards from there. Thanks :)
@mortcs said in Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement:
@killerrin the anime gutted most of the story. I'd say vol1 is the best place to start. Also the manga is pretty good.
Good to hear the manga is good. I might check it out if I find I need a better recap for the first couple volumes. Thanks :)
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@paul-nebeling said in Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement:
Not going to hold my breath waiting for a second season, but it would be nice.
Found this on reddit, but it appears at least one person things there will be a season 2.
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Absolutely disappointed in that episode. Almost ruined how I imagined volumes 5 and 6 (silver bride arc) that I have in the head.
To me, the leaping of Rio should be enhanced and within an enhanced human realm, not the superhuman levels shown there. Afterall, he is almost trying to replicate a higher tier artifact/weapon enhancement without exposing his spirit arts.The communication between Rio and Celia, very little I could fault apart from wanting more detailing in the animation.
The mass deployment of troops, Rio fighting an army. No, that is not how I saw it. In truth the evading part was poorly done, more or less a lazy attempt by the script writers and animators to "Kirito-kun" Rio.
And sadly they brought in the hero arc as a culmination which sadly will detract from the awesomeness which was the first night of Celia and Rio in the house after the rescue. That handholding-fear-comfort scene is emotionally sweet and what set my heart on the Celia ship. Adding the Japanese trio will be a distraction from this. Especially since they made Rio assassinate/brutually kill all the merchant and his guards. Not how Rio was described in the novel, too cold and ruthless. Admittedly, it is how I would like him to be sometimes, but the level of violence shown is not the desired level, too emotional whilst Rio is more force i.e. controlled violence unless it involves Lucius.
Just my two cents on this bitter disappointment.
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@custodes I think voice actors did the voice for Rio and Kirito.
I have been very disappointed with this anime and have descended to mostly pointing out mistakes instead of being entertained.
Arifureta was another anime that had a lot of obvious budget cutting issues and mistakes but I really enjoyed it for some reason. Maybe because it was soo bad it was good. Seirei Gensouki anime in contrast is so apathetic I can't watch it any more. Someone needs to redirect season 2 budget towards a new season of konosuba.
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@mortcs said in Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement:
@custodes I think voice actors did the voice for Rio and Kirito.
I just checked. Yes, it's the same voice actor. He does a lot of work, and not always the MC.
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For what it's worth, I didn't particularly dislike the anime adaptation. It wasn't what I hoped it would be, but I enjoyed watching it just fine and would be happy to watch another season. I thought the Arifureta anime was massively more disappointing.
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@myskaros said in Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement:
For what it's worth, I didn't particularly dislike the anime adaptation. It wasn't what I hoped it would be, but I enjoyed watching it just fine and would be happy to watch another season. I thought the Arifureta anime was massively more disappointing.
Same here. I’m very disappointed with the changes they did here…. It’s like they are trying to cue up Miharu for the season finale…
What am I reading?
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Realist Hero
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Wortenia Senki
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D-Genesis
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Arifureta
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By The Grace of Gods
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Ideal Sponger Life
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@thomask To me, it seemed like they were queuing up for a second season.
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I honestly thought you guys were exaggerating when you started talking about the cramming at the end of the final episode, but holy moly you were not...
Overall, this was a very 'meh' anime to me - not bad, by any means, but definitely a tonne of wasted potential. They changed, skipped and reordered things enough that it just somehow didn't feel like the same story, even though the events were (mostly) the same. It also felt incredibly 'rushed' in the pacing, and the fact they covered four (and a bit) volumes in a single cour lends some credence to that, even ignoring the whole final five minutes thing.
I thought Arifureta was great when I saw it. However, having now read the novels, it has also gone down to merely 'good' for mostly the same reasons as above.
Realist Hero, on the other hand, was great to begin with, with only some minor (and, to me, questionable) changes that didn't really affect the story, tone or anything else about it. However, as things have gone on and they seem to have changed more and more, it is also going down in my estimations, though not to the degree of the two above (it still feels like the same story at least and the pacing seems about right). My main gripe with that one is the whole 'we must end every episode on a massive cliffhanger!!!!!!!11111oneoneone' thing they went with, even seemingly making some of the aforementioned (questionable/pointless) changes to facilitate this goal. -.-
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@aerosatar said in Seirei Gensouki Anime Announcement:
I honestly thought you guys were exaggerating when you started talking about the cramming at the end of the final episode, but holy moly you were not...
No one would believe it if they hadn't watched it.
For what it is, they did an incredible job of it, but oh man is it ever condensed; Reader's Digest ain't got nuthin' on these guys... -
I can't believe this is getting a second season lol
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@paulnamida hopefully they doubled the budget of season 1 for a grand total of $200.
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@paulnamida I saw this one coming. The first season, for all its faults, actually did very well on Japanese and Chinese streaming sites. Then the BDs actually sold out (BD Volume 1 at least) over the course of the anime's run. Then there's the crowdfunding that hit nearly twice its original goal.
Granted I couldn't be 100% sure, but all the factors I mentioned was why I was optimistic for a second season.
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Season 2 apparently started streaming on Crunchyroll last week though I didn't notice.
The first episode was a partial rehash of the last episode of Season 1, but from Miharu, Aki, and Masato's perspectives.
It's kind of interesting how they handled Miharu and the others while Celia was present... in a wedding dress. I assume that topic came up in one of the many skipped conversations, but it was otherwise not explained or acknowledged at all.
I imagine the conversation must've gone something like this:
"Celia is wearing a rely pretty outfit."
"It's my wedding dress."
"Right, I abducted Celia from her wedding and she hasn't been able to change her clothes yet."
"I see. That's understandable."
"Well, she didn't want to get married and wanted to run away so I helped."
Celia making eyes at Rio.
"I see. That's understandable."As for episode two, it's got Hiroaki's introduction and, as titled, a combined shopping trip, with the mandatory fashion show montage, rather than having essentially two identical shopping trip sequences like the LN.
I wonder if they're planning on keeping the audible representation of the translation magic. It's quiet background track, but I'm finding it somewhat distracting. OTOH:
Random aside:
Hiroaki apparently had a poster with the Volume 1 cover of The Hero and the Sage, Reincarnated and Engaged in his room before getting transported. The poses the characters had looked familiar so I had to go and check. I was initially thinking it was just an inspiration, but was surprised that it was the same image. I guess it helps that they both have the same publisher.
